HPC Advisory Council announces Switzerland InfiniBand workshop

SUNNYVALE, USA: The HPC Advisory Council, a leading organization for high-performance computing research, outreach and education, announced that the HPC Advisory Council and the Swiss Supercomputing Centre will host the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2010 in the Lugano Convention Centre, Lugano, Switzerland, from March 15-17, 2010.

The workshop will focus on High-Performance Computing education and training including CPU technologies, accelerators, networking, storage, software middleware and various applications. The workshop will also cover advanced topics such as MPI offloads, networking optimizations and will feature presenters from the Swiss Supercomputing Centre, Simula Research Laboratory, the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, HPC Advisory Council professionals as well as technologists from various Independent Software Vendors and OEMs.

Hands-on training will be incorporated within the workshop agenda to allow participants to actually configure and test high-performance clusters. The workshop will bring together system managers, researchers, developers, computational scientists, students and industry affiliates for cross-training and to discuss recent HPC developments and future advancements.

“The HPC Advisory Council hosts HPC workshops worldwide and we are pleased to collaborate with the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre for this upcoming High-Performance Computing education, training and outreach workshop in Switzerland,” said Gilad Shainer, chairman of the HPC Advisory Council. “This is an excellent training and educational opportunity for European-based, HPC and data center IT professionals.”

“CSCS, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, is delighted to collaborate with the HPC Advisory Council by hosting this event,” said Dominik Ulmer, CSCS COO. “InfiniBand has become a cornerstone of HPC solutions and we are looking forward to a very rich and interesting program highlighting the current status and the future development of InfiniBand technology.”

The HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop is sponsored by leading high-performance computing companies and organizations such as AMD, CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre), IBM, Mellanox Technologies, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems. For the complete agenda and schedule, and the complete list of speakers, please refer to the workshop website. The conference is free. Registration is required and is now open. The three-day workshop will include coffee breaks and lunch courtesy of the HPC Advisory Council.